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Just like the artist himself, who explored the world with his artistic ideal and enthusiasm, proudly and ambitiously, in dedicating to make a breakthrough in this art world.

The exhibition in New York makes a representative statement of his short but remarkable artistic life.

“Where come from" –

This series introduces the Taiwanese folk culture, which is closely connected with the artist’s own childhood memories. As time goes, the conflict between the tradition and the modernity has made the artist wondering what is the value and the convention of the society that is worth preserving.

– “It’s needed to reflect on where we come from, therefore the culture exists."

“Where to go" –

The portrait works reflect the artist’s humanistic care for the international situation. The artist projected his feelings through the way he portrays two figures with different characteristics, black and white, one old and one young, one man and one woman.

“Reflection of ourselves paves the path to eternity" –

The old tree is the iconic symbol of the artist and also the projection of the artist’s spiritual thoughts. In this series of four withered trees, the struggling but persistent gestures depict how the artist defending himself as the artist and as a human being.

One of his final paintings – Spring comes to the withered tree

The artist was normally painting the trees without any leaves on it. He believes that the leaves are a symbol of success, however, that the time has not yet arrived, just like the tree’s waiting for the spring coming. From the last piece of his work reveals the calmness and the will of freeing himself from the rule of the world. The growing sprouts on the exhausted tree indicate the artist was expecting to reborn and somehow being memorized by this world in another way.

Yet, the spring did come while such the talented and splendid life of Deng-Hong Cao has been painting us the world with his own true color.

The young artist Yi An WANG created her work -『The plague』to present the impact from animals and virus to environments, in order to describe the artiste’s concerns about relationships between humain beings, nature and current epidemics.

The series “La Terre" brings together a dozen paintings of mixed materials that represent the real landscapes and landscapes imagined by the artist. The inspirations come from the cities where the artist lived and the lands in his imagination and his dreams. The series is also inspired by traditional Chinese culture, such as Feng Shui ，Huangdi Neijing.

Traditional Chinese culture is formed by the combination of local culture and Buddhism. In Eastern cosmology, earth, water, fire and air are the four most fundamental elements of the universe that merge to produce metal, wood, water, fire and earth. These five substances constitute the world.

In the series “La Terre", the artist uses the four fundamental elements of earth, water, fire and air as media to create a world where fantasy and reality combines. The erratic changes of the four elements produce five substances that form nature. At the same time, the traces left by the changes are the best proof that time has passed in the natural world.

The flow of water and the dryness of the flows, the collapsed sludge dried and cracked, the flames smoldering the surface, and the mineral pigments dispersed by the wind pouring on the painting … The exposed soil from a plunging view gives a strong sense of the reality, and the traces of the flow of the paints leave dreamy lines on the dried surface. The combinations of reality and fantasy, of thickness and lightness, broke the barriers of illusion and reality, and ultimately formed a unique artistic world.

Our memory remains inside of us without any sense of time,while the nature proceed with complete sense of time.I use my work to explore this void between something naturaland something unnatural, something visible and something invisible, and something living and something disappearing in order to find inter- section of our timeless memory and constantly changing nature.